Plant Pathogen-Detection & Disease Diagnosis Revised & Expanded (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: CRC
Published: August 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780824705916
Subjects: Plant pathology & diseases; Science; Nature/Ecology; Plant Pathology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Regional - General; Phytopathogenic microorganisms; Agriculture - General; Flowers; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Botany; Diagnosis; Life Sciences - Botany; Detection; Plant Diseases
First sentence: The incidence of plant diseases even in the prehistoric period can be inferred from fossils about 250,000 years old, and it has been estimated that about 80,000 diseases may affect various crops, resulting in losses as high as U.S. $60 billion throughout the world annually (Klausner, 1987; Agrios, 1969; Chu et al., 1989).